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From its founding in 2007 to its members’ apprehension and eventual extradition in late 2016, the Bayrob Group, which operated out of Bucharest, Romania, ran a sprawling hacking and malware operation. They deployed trojan malware in seemingly mundane emails from well-known companies and groups, but when victims attempted to download attachments
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Maksim Zaslavskiy, a computer programmer from Brooklyn and the first person in the United States to be convicted of running a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) has been sentenced to a year and a half behind bars.As Law360 reported on Nov. 18, the Brooklyn businessman received a prison sentence
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The fraudster used diamonds and real estate to whisk away $300,000 in other people's money in 2017. Source
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Tina Jones, a 32-year-old nurse from the Chicago area, pleaded guilty on Tuesday for plotting the murder of her lover’s wife by trying to hire a hitman and paying $12,000 in Bitcoin(BTC)trade on the dark web in a site called “Sicilian Hitmen International Network.”However, she got caught and the prosecutors
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Elliot Gunton, aged 19 and of Mounteney Close in Norwich, pleaded guilty to supplying online personal data and hacking services for cryptocurrency.A hacker for hireA press release published on Aug. 16 by the Norfolk police reports that the man was sentenced to 20 months in prison and ordered to
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